All the best,
Isabell

Yesterday we were at the Offenes Haus, the open house, at Radio Darmstadt for an hour to talk about the event and multiculturalism. Follow the link to listen to the MP3.

Imagine living in a Tesco house, sending your child to a Tesco school, swimming in a Tesco pool and, of course, shopping at the local Tesco superstore. According to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe), the government’s adviser on architecture and design, this collective monopoly is not an imaginary dystopia. “Tesco Towns” on this model are already being planned across the UK, from Inverness in Scotland to Seaton in Devon.

Tesco is proposing to build a superstore, hundreds of homes and a hotel in the Devon town.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/05/urban-development-tesco-towns

Intervenção urbana, arte educação, solidariedade, diálogo, transformação, informação, atuação, políticas públicas, trocas humanas…estamos aqui pra isso…vou responder ao teu questionário. muito prazer e um abraço, Mariana

So good! Thanks Cate!…there’s just a burqa too much 😉

Nota: http://www.ubaldofillol.com/notas-nota.php?id_nota=292

Parabens!

julakim is replying:
Always at our best

Hi Axel!
Thank you for always commenting on my posts. I didn’t know that guy before but checked it out. He is working more on a cultural/social aspect. But I think it is a great idea anyway to choose dance as a international language since we have all the same body (but move it in so many different ways). It is somehow funny to see him dance in the same way all over the world. 🙂

Other events may be near your city:
where? Germany | Berlin | Haus der Berliner Festspiele
what? Tanz im August Internationales Tanzfest Berlin: “DREAMLANDS” William Forsythe, David Dawson, Pascal Touzeau und Johan Inger.
when? 29.08.08 – 30.08.08, 20h

where? Germany | Dresden | Festspielhaus Hellerau
what? The Forsythe Company “The Defenders”
when? 05.09.08 – 08.09.08, 19/20:30

where? Greece | Thessaloniki | Amphithéâtre
what? Ballet National de Marseille “Tattoo” (Kelemenis), “Herman Schmerman Pas de Deux” (Forsythe), “Somewhere” (Lestel)
when? 21.09.08

where? Germany | Frankfurt am Main | Bockenheimer Depot
what? The Forsythe Company “If I sing to you” – Eine Choreographie von Deborah Hay
when? 30.10.08 – 02.11.08, 20:00

where? France | Paris | Centre Pompidou
what? Deborah Hay – If I Sing To You – Festival d’Automne à Paris
when? 12.11.08 – 15.11.08, 20.30h

where? France | Nanterre | Maison de la Musique
what? Ballet National de Marseille “Tattoo” (Kelemenis), “Herman Schmerman Pas de Deux” (Forsythe), “Por Vos Muero” (Duato)
when? 12.12.08

By clicking on William Forsythe Events you get the official events announced on his website.

talvez soe meio estranho, mas também espero que você possa se comunicar comigo y que troquemos outras experiências mais, já que o acaso nos uniu!!!

meu blog addresses:

http://www.henrikqaeshna.blogspot.com

http://www.freewebs.com/henrikq

infelizmente, não tenho tido muito tempo para renov-a-los, mas, mesmo assim, eles t^Çem muito da minha carne, do meu espírito…

parabéns pelo ótimo trabalho y beijão do seu amigo Henrikq!

julakim is replying:
caligula, obrigada por suas palavras aqui escritas e tambem faladas nesse domingo la em Amsterdam. A vida e troca …. vivemos disso.
me fala mais da sua visão particular de um URBANISMO SUBJETIVO (e coisa que me interesa).
valeu.

The annual report can be downloaded here:
http://www.citiesalliance.org/publications/annual-report/2007-annual-report.html
With the following sections
* Cover and Foreword (5 pages, 293 KB PDF)
* Cities Alliance in Action (29 pages, 592 KB PDF)
* Cities Alliance Members’ Reports (33 pages, 459 KB PDF)
* Communications and Knowledge Sharing (12 pages, 179 KB PDF)
* Cities Alliance Organizations (5 pages, 85 KB PDF)
* Financials (11 pages, 89 KB PDF)
* Abbreviations and Acronyms (5 pages, 89 KB PDF)

Tenho orgulho de ser favelado da Rocinha.
Very nice website! Thank you for make this site.

julakim is replying:
claro, somos quem somos e temos nos comunicar que somos. nao tem humano melhor. eu gosto das diferencas e importante saber disso.

This is a feature on carioca funk. Again we have to learn a lot from Mr. Catra. Have a look at the videos at least.
http://fm4.orf.at/nataliebrunner/214519/main

Last week a “street radio” application by Hive Networks (GB) ended in Dortmund near the so called “U-Tower”, the former brewing highrise that is now transformed into a centre of culture and art for the Ruhr2010 – the European cultural city in 2010 will be the Ruhrgebiet.
It was possible to follow and participate in the installation “Field Amplification” by four stations – just bring your radio or bluetooth-cell-phone with you and you can switch into the Art of the Electomagnetic Society.

Hivenetworks seek to combine free wireless community networks with content and services supplied by individual users and groups. In existence since 2005, the developer group aims at building a toolkit for the creation of freely configurable communication architectures, which allow one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many communications by linking different protocols such as W-LAN and Bluetooth with the Internet and readily available user devices like mobile phones. The ingenious combination of those technologies allows the creation of new links and new interfaces connecting data spaces to homes, public buildings, and the street. It does so by seeking to use low-cost, mass-produced devices as well as free and open-source software for creating systems that open up new creative possibilities, espacially for participatory art practices, while at the same time subverting existing techno-social hegemonies in a number of ways. Hivewares – the technological systems created by Hivenetworks – subvert the dominance of proprietary networking models such as mobile phone networks, undermine broadcasting systems by using extreme narrowcastings, and break through cost barriers in making available “augmented” reality concepts at a very low cost.
Here in Dortmund, four stations shoulder different workloads. One station is busy scanning the area for Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices and then sending them programme information. Another station receives input from the public via mobile phones. Users can send text messages via SMS, or recordings of the spoken word via their mobile phones, all which are subsequently collated into a radio stream, thereby creating a radio format reflecting the ideas of the public about future uses of the U-Tower. The two other stations are more conventional short-range radio stations, with one station broadcasting the radio play “The Zone” and the other station paying sound artworkds by exhibition artists.
julakim is replying:
Thank you for the comment. So it is already in action somewhere. The idea of the bluetooth-net could be good solution for the satellites. I am sure that there are a lot of other cities also developing such ideas. Let s see when they will find their way to RadioFavela.

A short video of the life in favelas and good background information of everyday life in favelas starting 30 years ago.

http://youthink.worldbank.org/issues/urbanization/radiowaves.php

kusje dd.r
julakim is replying:
So, publish your drawings next monday!

julakim is replying:
On devrait faire une fete de la musique le 21 septembre a Fanjaux.
Qu’est-ce que vous en pensez?

The French Minister of Culture decided in 1982 to make a Day for Music. It became the 21st of June. Now it already spread into more than 50 countries.

If there is still nothing going on in your city go out on the 21st of June and play some music in the street. Animate passers-by to make some noise to wake up the good character of your city. If you are feeling unsure visit us on facebook.

A short definition you can find on wiki, but the French wiki is way better.

I’m from… yeah good question, where am I from ? I’m from France but I can’t tell you exactly where… The only thing I know it’s that I’ve shared special moments in “Le Mas de la Nojarette” and it was an other planet located in Ardeche !
Allez, un petit peu en français pour mixer le tout, je suis impressioné par l’amplitude de ton blog, et toutes les cultures qui sont prêtes à y échanger leurs expérience, points de vue et autres sujets. Je te souhaite de développer encore et encore ces ramifications qui mènent finalement à l’endroit où l’on vit tous : le monde.

Bisous à tous ! (Si tu m’as reconnu, c’est à ton tour de m’écrire)

http://vickycollins.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/touring-rios-favelas/

The ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics is featuring the AML, which is an interactive sound installation.
It can be visited until the 6jan2009 and is located in the ‘Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie’ in Karlsruhe, Germany.

It is about the changes sound makes in different spaces. Since it is interactive it is quite fun. AML stands for Architecture Music Laboratory.

The director David Lynch was invited to participate at New York’s cowparade but his cow was sent back.
So much about freedom of opinion.

The white, white country of drugs — everywhere;
first it is attractive, then you might realize that all your senses are changed — upside down . . . and the desire to come back to the colourful country of real life get’s lost — for ever??

eme3 is a festival in which architecture interacts with other scientific and creative disciplines, adopting and reinterpreting their structures. eme3 is the environment expressed in cubic meters, where proposals, fruit of the research of space, interact with one another and who’s cohabitation in a common setting motors an exchange dynamic.

eme3 is a provider of stages for expressing ideas, providing the creator with an actual interactive space and offering the promoter an appointment to explore emergent architecture.

let’s find the real meanings

julakim is replying:
What real things?
and where is your occupation ‘urban poet’?

Aaron Wakling

from germany, 100% german, 100% European, now learning russian language and central-asian way-of-life…
what the hell is going on here?

You will get more information on the films:
documentary Bus 174 by José Padhila,
City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund,
City of Men (Telenovela),
Carandiru by Hector Babenco.

You can view it here:
http://www.metamute.org/en/Slumsploitation-Favela-on-Film-and-TV

“Auch Dante Quinterno kennt seine Grenzen. Der alerte Sohn eines argentinischen Medienunternehmers hat auf eigene Kosten für 2,5 Millionen Dollar Rocinha verkabeln lassen. Er ist Direktor von TV-Roc, einem lokalen Fernsehsender, der nur in der Favela zu empfangen ist. Immerhin zahlen 30000 Abonnenten monatlich umgerechnet acht Euro Fernsehgebühr. TV-Roc kauft Filme ein, produziert eigene Clips und beschäftigt ein halbes Dutzend Journalisten, die über kulturelle Events in der Favela berichten. Auch der Tag der Liebe, die Solidaritätsaktion von Viva Rio, war ein Thema. „Doch über Politik reden wir nicht, und schon gar nicht über den Drogenhandel“, sagt Quinterno, „wir respektieren die Verhältnisse.”

i love the green one for the little boy peeing in the sand. and of course the bodybuilders! only last week i passed by a couple of pedestrians on my bike that were standing on the sidewalk waiting for a chance to cross the road. among them a little boy. i am really bad in guessing kids ages. anything between able to walk and first grade of school, i figure. anyways he fumbeld his weenie out an peed on the street just in front of me. i have seen something similar so many times in this city, you wouldnt fucking believe it.

ein video von snoop dog, passt ein bisschen zu dem gedicht vielleicht. jedenfalls kommt der park auch drin vor.

julakim is translating:
You can view at the end the Parque Lage.

it is the same discussion as: shall we have tourist guides showing the favelas or not. is it bad to look at poverty or not. of course it always seams to be very voyeuristic on one hand but on the other hand turning away from it is also wrong. watching brazilian soap operas leaves the impression there was no poverty, everything was just perfect and life was an ongoing disneyland.

i didnt like the main actor in tropa de elite being a saint all through the film. that was deffinitly too much. t i thought it was smart letting the ngo students use drugs, keeping the business alive. we all use drugs. some of them are legalized, some are not. in the end it all comes down to money issues. and this is what causes the war. thats the sad truth. i thought this was pretty easy to understand. unfortunatelly the brazilian education is one of the worst in the world. most people are not able to think abstract nor willing to think on their own. they basically only see and repeat. they are not used to discuss something nor to develop an idea – i am talking about 90% of the population. this is why you find kids in the street playing the movie and adults loving it. because they dont think about what kind of message is entering the childs head. they also dont even know themselves what they should actually think about it. if nobody tells them what to think, they are a bit lost. the message of a movie like this can only be understood by an educated person. if the brazilian government would invest in education, they would be able to solve so many problems. but they prefer to keep the people stupid. probably because they are afraid they might learn about the corruption and even might learn how to defend and help themselves.

I would like to highlite the article on ‘Community Radio Social Impact Assessement – Removing Barriers, Increasing Effectiveness’.

a youtube from the performance: As cinco peles do samba.

Hello,
It would be great to meet in Frankfurt. We will be there on the 20th, early in themorning. We will leave on the 22nd. Maybe we can meet on the 21st and you could tell us places where to go in Frankfurt.
thank you
Alice

You can listen to a report on the gang structure in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. At the end he talks about the film ‘Tropa de Elite’.
Unfortunately just in German: Bandenstruktur in den Favelas

julakim is replying:
Here is a BBC report on the BOPE and the film: Film casts light on rough justice in Rio

In the StadtBauWelt 176 (21dec2007) I read an interesting article from Rober Neuwirth. The title in German is ‘”… um nie wieder die Rückseite der Stadt zu verachten …”‘ (= ” … to never disregard the back side of the city …”).

He clears out some myths.

01 Slums typify human suffering
In the favela people did live the American Dream from dishwasher to millionaire. Rocinha is an example for that. It started as Rocinha ( = “small farm”) and now it is a district where every house is connected to water and electricity supply. ‘Who is living in Rocnha has no reason to leave. You can get everything here.”

02 Everyone who lives in a slum is poor
Kibera (southwest of Nairobi, Kenia) has no water, no disposal or sanitation but a good working commercial structure: supermarkets, clinics, hair dressers, schools, telephone exchange, and churches.
The inhabitants represent all social classes. Squatters are economically, politically and socially as assorted as any other residential zone.

03 Squatters are enemies of the civilised society and are disapproving of being a part of it
First precondition is a waranty against arbitrary expulsion. Because than they start to invest and make the best of it.
Second precondition is an access to politics or public organs.

julakim is replying:
In the same edition you can read an article about the contradictory geography of the favela (=’Die widersprüchjliche Geographie der Favela’) by Daniela Fabricius. She gives an overview on ‘Rocinha – the favela as a town’, ‘Providencia – Rio’s oldest favela’, and explains some facts like:
gatos (=cats) < an inofficial and most of the time illegal branch connection to water, electricity, phone, TV >
Vans (=shuttle bus) < the inofficial public transport > In Mexico City they displaced the public transport.

I think these two articles show the independency of these home grown urban spaces. We shouldn’t show up there offering solutions for everything. We had this during colonization time and we know the end of the story.

favelado?nao!
são seres humanos que se submeteram ha morar
neste local .

julakim is translating:
Favelado? no!
These are human beings who are complying to live in this place.

julakim is replying:
Have a look at this comment by btgms. There is a lot of work to be done on definitions and political correctness. I already noticed that on my interview with José Tannuri.

I think that people just need violence. I can be the reality of Rio (I think so) but it is also an action movie, the last cool action movie from the cool dangerous favelas. And the people will see the movie and say : yes it’s horrible, the violence, how can it be true? and denn go to the restaurant and order a bloody steak.

WE NEED POSITIVE ENERGY, NOT VIOLENCE.
And by the way, a film has never changed something in the world, but I think a positive movie can do the people happier, just for an instant; that’s what i call positive energy.

take care

bem ! . depois do cidade de deus .teve uma explosao de
de filmes mostrando o cotidiano carioca que tambem nao deixa de ser
realidade (uma gerra civil ).
o filme sendo exportado ,para os grandes festivais do mundo.
é preucupante a relaçao do brasil e o mundo.
aconselho a todos que leiam o livro .

julakim is translating:
okay ! after the city of god we had an explosion of movies showing the carioca everyday-life which can’t help to be real (civil war).
The film gets exported to the big festivals in the world.
The relation ship of Brazil with the world is alarming.
I suggest everyone to read the book.

tu peux écrire sur ma boite mail, je préfere
Jte remercie et restons en contact pour des projets ou discussion !
a bientot

Ja, Herr Florian Busch, da kann man ja nur mit dem folgenden Satz antworten:
Wer sich nicht wehrt, endet am Herd.

Eigentlich wollte ich es kurzerhand dabei belassen, doch mein Einspruchs- bzw. Widerspruchsgeist erlaubt dies nicht.
Mein Kommentar folgt nun dem O-Ton Busch:
Zeile 1 – 4 Es dürfte auch Kinder / Gören geben, die zwar böse scheinen, es aber nicht unbedingt sind (siehe: „Gute Mädchen kommen in den Himmel, böse (Gören) überallhin.“)

Zeile 5 – 8 Es gibt aber Gören, die sich – ja, ja – nur, höchst selten etwas aus „weisen Lehren“ machten und sich über Eltern „heimlich lustig machten“.

Zeile 9 – 12 Hier seh ich mich nicht getrieben, die Aufzählung fortzusetzen.

Zeile 13 – 16 Kein Kommentar

Zeile 17 – 22 Das Schicksal wird wohl seinen Lauf nehmen – auch im vorliegenden Fall; und die Person, um die es hier geht, wird den Teil, der vom grossen Meister als „abgemalt“ bezeichnet wird, selbst hinzufügen.

… looking forward to some more redACT! ;)) Go on with that from time to time – loved this!

And check out on formats again – on most of the computers in the internetcafes of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia unfortunately I wasn’t able to play your posts!

well just two episodes ago you had a redACT: German Language Course for Czechs

Ach, was muss man oft von boesen Goeren
lesen oder hoeren!
Die, statt daheim am Herd zu bleiben,
im Sueden umeinand sich treiben!
Ins Land der Caipirinha ziehn,
Kehrwoch, deutschem Sonntag fliehn,
und, mit Hilf der Radiowellen,
Freigeist in den Aether stellen!
Empoerung macht sich in mir breit,
betracht ich solch´ Verkommenheit!

julakim is replying:

It took me a while to sum up the article I read on a weekly german newspaper – but here it is:

The Soul of Rio

On the weekly newspaper „Die Zeit“ (09/06/07) I found an article where the change of Rio during the last decades is described:
On the example of two quarters the author shows the new relationship between the inhabitants and the districts. The districts Lapa and Santa Teresa changed from favelas ruled by drugs, fear and violence on one hand and on the other under landslips into hip quarters where the inhabitants care about the image of their home.
In the meantime, the city has discovered its neglected parts: Santa Teresa is a big part during the day, and Lapa from dusk till dawn, when the people quit the blossomed streets of Santa Teresa towards the nightlife of Lapa.
You can say, a new melting pot emerged in the middle of Rio. The two districts combine culture, music, citizens’ initiative, old bohemians with hip artists and the simple life of the residents and more and more tourists.
Through the stick-together of the inhabitants, they won the struggle against drugs and dealers for a better life with the annual art festival and the magnificent view over the beach and the skyline.
Nowadays, on the streets of Lapa and Santa Teresa, you can find favela-children, rich people from other outskirts, hippies, snobbish girlies, tourists and artists …. All together they live their own life but in the same areas – what a wonderful prototype for living elsewhere!

And here is the whole articel in German:
http://www.zeit.de/2007/37/Rio?page=1

fine furniture. you have to ask the television if they need a decoration crew.

Merci et bon voyage.

I´m impressed on how Jula could know carioca´s soul spending so little time among us. Congrats! This is Rio!

graffiti is our language
watch out and understand
it s political straight and just beautiful

I find very interesting the idea of knowing a State and its culture by staying there for long time and by dancing in its space. Following the link you can find more information about a dance performance at the MAC.
http://www.artemisdanza.com/newsite/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=17

If you want to know more about the spiral-form, look at this:
http://www.kosmostheater.at/ueber_kosmos00_main1.asp

green, sad, beautiful …

the other day i was strolling around in a big park in sao paulo – on a monday, weather was cloudy, cold. did you ever notice that there are empty spaces, nearly no one out where the big roads with all the traffic are just some steps away? velocity changes suddenly, when you step in. slowness in between velocity, space in between density, colours in between where the grey dominates…

julakim says:
read on not everything is in German

Hier ein link zum Bayrischen Rundfunk = BR2 Radio mit folgendem Zitat:
“Wer sich in der online-Welt behaupten will, muss immer wieder offline gehen.”
This is the final statement of the radio-drama “Babel 2.0”
I’m joining 2 short descriptions – up to you to find out about the rest.

Babel 2.0 – Chancen und Risiken der vernetzten Gesellschaft
Als Ursendung im hörspiel!art.mix, am 31. August ab 20.30 Uhr in Bayern2Radio. Babel 2.0

Immer mehr Menschen streben täglich ins Netz. Jahrhundertealte Denkmuster werden durch die Digitalisierung auf den Kopf gestellt – mit Utopien von Basisdemokratie oder kollektiver Intelligenz, aber auch mit Ãœberwachungs-Szenarien und der kaum überschaubaren Macht der Medienkonzerne. Ania Mauruschats Feature zieht eine Zwischenbilanz der Sendereihe suchmaschine wissen macht: eine Bestandsaufnahme der Chancen und Risiken einer vernetzten Welt auf dem Weg in die Wissensgesellschaft.

BR 2 – Freitag, 31. August 2007, 20:30 Uhr (Ursendung)
Autor(en): Ania Mauruschat (BRD 1976)
Produktion: BR 2007 stereo ~ 55 Min. – Feature
Regie: Ania Mauruschat
Inhaltsangabe:
“Die Einrichtung des Cyberspace, der Umgebung für Kommunikation und Denken menschlicher Gruppierungen, wird im nächsten Jahrhundert eine der größten ästhetischen und politischen Herausforderungen sein.”

Was der französische Medienphilosoph Pierre Levy Mitte der 1990er Jahre prophezeite, ist heute Lebenswirklichkeit. Immer mehr Menschen streben täglich ins Netz und basteln sich dort mit Weblogs und in Communities eine virtuelle Identität. Jahrhundertealte Denkmuster der Gutenberg-Galaxie werden durch die Digitalisierung auf den Kopf gestellt, und die rasenden Geschwindigkeiten der neuen Medien verwirren unsere Sinne – im basisdemokratischen Internet scheint nichts mehr das zu sein, was es einmal war.

Dabei ist keineswegs entschieden, welche Pläne sich auf der Baustelle des babylonisch wuchernden Cyberspace durchsetzen werden: Ob etwa in Zukunft noch frei zugängliche Paläste gebaut werden, die der “Weisheit der Vielen” (James Surowiecki) und dem “Reichtum der Netzwerke” (Yochai Benkler) gewidmet sind, wie die Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia und die Bewegung der Free and Open Source Software. Ob wir durch solche Beispiele vielleicht wirklich klügere, schönere, bessere Menschen werden, die gemeinsam eine ökollektive Intelligenz” (Pierre Levy) und eine bereichernde Volkskultur des “Remixing” (Lawrence Lessig) hervorbringen. Und welche rechtlichen und medialen Vorkehrungen dafür getroffen werden müssen, denn das “Wissen als Medieneffekt” (Joseph Vogl) kommt nur als Ergebnis eines komplexen Zusammenspiels von Technologien, Zeichen, Institutionen und Darstellungsformen zustande.
Oder wird der staatliche Kampf gegen Terror, Kriminalität und bisweilen auch Meinungsfreiheit doch eher eine graue Kontrollgesellschaft der Angst errichten, vielleicht sogar zu einer Stasi 2.0 führen, wie es Datenschützer und Bürgerrechtler in Deutschland nennen? Auch wenn das Internet eine neue Chance für “Nischenprodukte statt Massenmarkt” (Chris Anderson) bietet: Große Medienkonzerne der ‘Creative Industries’ könnten das Netz ebenso gut in einen finsteren Kerker neofeudaler Abhängigkeiten verwandeln, mit undurchsichtigen und erpresserischen Geschäftsbedingungen und horrenden Urheberrechtsklagen, die auf ‘geistiges Eigentum’ pochen.
Ania Mauruschats Feature zieht eine Zwischenbilanz der Sendereihe “Suchmaschine Wissen Macht” – als Bestandsaufnahme der Chancen und Risiken einer vernetzten Welt auf dem Weg in die Wissensgesellschaft.

Every internet-user should keep in mind the reverse of the medal.

julakim is saying:
okay, I won’t translate everything, but will help you to understand her last phrase.

Nevertheless I still would like you to participate on my blog.

I saw this marvellous “Living room” dance piece when I was in Rio. I knew nothing about dance for 2 years ago, but everytime I see a new performance, I realize the universality of dancing. It works with emotions, body , music, and finally architecture. When I look at the dancers, I see first an human body, exactly the same sensation that I have when I want to start to paint someone. At the end, It is a moving mirror that show us our own human body and soul. I think that’s the reason because I feel so involved when I seat in this “Living Room”. Thanks to Andrea, and thanks to you, Julakim, for this experience.

bon soir, schön deine neue welt zu durchstöbern.
meine alte welt hat mich heute mit einem regenbogen beschenkt.
bis die tage
kuss veit

Bisous.

Audrey et Laurence (Taillefer)

Remember me? The map’s guy from Leblon. I hope you’ve found the address easily.
I do like the blog. It’s very pleasant see your passion about carioca’s culture. Specially about slum’s cultural production that have a rich diversity.
Good luck with yours projects
Goodbye

…
Patience is a virtue.

In few years we will see a result…

Hello, I would like to present here my personal theory concerning the relationship between the city and the community:
I take for example an existing city district; it has his qualities and his failings. A small part of the inhabitants decides to make something to ameliorate the living quality. A new community is growing and becomes the dynamic power of the district. This community is also an ideological group and becomes slowly homogeneous. These ideas attract foreign people in the district and the mix of people disappears step by step. The district is finally changed, a community is now installed
until a few people of this community want to change something in the quiet harmony of the new way to live in the district. And this process always comes back again.

Conclusion: I think that people goes while architecture stays. There is always a gap of a few decades between both.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me…

Music has always been an important media!

Meine – wie ich denke – passende Zutat: “Architektur und Musik sind die einzigen Künste, die Räume erschaffen.” Roger Willemsen – Die Zeit # 10/2007 p. 46 – /Feuilleton/Diskothek

E: “In the entire universe of art there is but architecture and music to create spaces.”
Roger Willemsen is starting a new column in the german weekly “Die Zeit”, where he will talk about his paradises of music.

julakim is replying:
Very interesting comment. Thank you for translating it into English!

julakim is replying:
not quite yet … there’s still a lot of raw material from Rio waiting to be cooked.